netdev - Re: [PATCH V2] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix incorrect response to SIOCGIWESSID

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:17:27 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix incorrect response to
 SIOCGIWESSID

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 01:32:38PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> When not associated with an AP, wifi device drivers should respond to the
> SIOCGIWESSID ioctl with a zero-length string for the SSID, which is the
> behavior expected by dhcpcd.
> 
> Currently, this driver returns an error code (-1) from the ioctl call,
> which causes dhcpcd to assume that the device is not a wireless interface
> and therefore it fails to work correctly with it thereafter.
> 
> This problem was reported and tested at
> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/234.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
> ---
> 
> v2 - completed missing subject

Ah, nevermind, you already did...